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A Date question provides the respondent with a field specially designed to hold a date. This could be used for example to ask for the respondent's date of birth, the date of a particular event etc.
In the Survey Tree toolbox, the object looks as shown below.
Figure 1 - A Date object in the Survey Tree
In this case the object is being used to discover when the respondent made a particular purchase - .
Figure 2 - Example of a Date question in use
When the respondent clicks on the button below the date field, a calendar opens enabling him/her to select the desired date. This ensures the format of the date input is correct.
Note: The format of the date displayed in the input field when the date picker has been used will depend on the standard format used in the language selected for the survey. For example, if the survey language is English (United Kingdom), the format is DDMMYYYY, while if English (United States) is chosen, the format is MMDDYYYY.
You can convert a Date question to Open or Numeric if you need to; to do so right-click on the object in the Survey Tree and select Convert to.
Note: When a date object is used in a survey, it will be available (as all other objects) in the survey data. When editing the respondent data you will be able to select the date as a column and search for respondents based on the date.